Saturday, June 6, 2009, 9AM - 2PM.

Celebrate National Trails Day by working on the Potomac Heritage Trail at Bles Park
in eastern Loudoun County. Come out and join REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.), Loudoun County Parks and Recreation, and the Potomac Heritage Trail Association as we open a critical new section of the PHT along scenic Broad Run. Completing this trail section will help finish the Potomac Heritage Trail from Goose Creek near Leesburg to Great Falls in Fairfax County. This National Trails Day event will also include a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the grand opening of this new stretch of the PHT, and a Sierra Club PRO hike from Bles Park to Keep Loudoun Beautiful Park on Goose Creek. Please bring work gloves, water, and lunch. Tools will be provided.

Meet at the Bles Park parking lot behind the Virginia Campus of George Washington University at 9AM. To reach Bles Park from the Capital Beltway at Tysons Corner: take Leesburg Pike (Rte.7) west into Loudoun County. Proceed past Dulles Town Center and cross Broad Run. Make the first right after crossing Broad Run on George Washington
University Drive, then turn right on Riverside Parkway. Stay on Riverside Parkway until it dead-ends at the Bles Park parking lot on your right.

For further information contact Rhonda Krafchin (REI) at 310/406-6013, or Glenn Gillis (PHTA) at 703/430-0568, glennpotomacfalls@yahoo.com.